Find Live comedy

Simon Pegg, you're a brick...

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

‘Comedy, in all its forms, has a very short shelf-life but every fart is funny.’ Doug Stanhope.

On which topic, Mr Methane, the world’s only professional flatulist, has launched a service to offer personalized farts. He told blogger John Fleming: ‘All you have to do is fill out a form with details of the special oral greeting that you’d like me to convey and this will result in a personalised and very special video greeting from my rear end.’

Shaun of the Dead fans are lobbying Lego to have an official set of figures from the film. An online campaign has more than 7,500 supporters – and if they reach 10,000 the company says it will consider doing it. But its response to the campaign does demonstrate a certain corporate reluctance, fearing the violence in the film might compromise its brand image: ‘Note that the zombie theme does put this project at the edge of what we produce,’ they said. ‘However we recognize that the LEGO Group produces other products where themese [sic] of violence and death play a significant role.’ A flickr user called Yatkuu has already made a model of what it should look like, here

‘I'm extremely jazzed and working hard to make it non shite’ Adam Buxton on his newly commissioned Sky Atlantic show, Bug.

Comedian Milton Berle almost appeared in an episode of Star Trek – until the writer pulled the plug, irate at changes being made by the producer. In the 1967 episode He Walked Among Us, the comic would have played a deluded sociologist who the crew of the starship Enterprise must stop from disrupting natural social development on the planet Jugal. The story has just surfaced because writer Norman Spinrad – who complained that changes to his script made it into an ‘unfunny comedy’ – has allowed an online amateur version of the script to be played out by fans, much to the chagrin of the CBS network, which owns the rights.

Stephen Fry has done a 141ft bungee jump off a bridge, sandwiched between two women. It was in New Zealand – where else – where he is filming The Hobbit. ‘I did it,’ he tweeted. ‘Solo and in a sandwich. I'm officially all man.’
Dominic Holland describes a gig in front of a bawdy Cardiff audience in his blog, Eclipsed, this week: ‘I’m back stage ready to be announced. I can hear but I cannot see and I register that Mick [Ferry] has identified a pregnant lady in the front row. Mick announces me and I am suddenly in to the lights, my working day has suddenly begun... All is well – until I spot the pregnant lady in the front row and I decide to chat to her. Straight away I can sense that something is wrong... My pregnant lady looks ashen and turns to her heavily tattooed husband for support. What the hell is the problem? And then I spot the actual pregnant lady sitting a few seats across to my left. This lady is blonde, pretty, petite and obviously very pregnant. I now realise that my pregnant lady is not pregnant at all. She is just fat.’ A hmbling apology was the only way to quell her rising anger... bit how many comics can say that’s a pitfall they haven’t fallen into

We see you are using AdBlocker software. Chortle relies on advertisers to fund this website so it’s free for you, so we would ask that you disable it for this site. Our ads are non-intrusive and relevant. Help keep Chortle viable.